skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my comment I wrote earlier in my submission that was removed because it was a "dupe" (and I seem to have been throttled as a result of this transgression):

I'm a bit of a centrist leaning to WSB:

- I will agree the fundamentals are off. AMC, BB, GS compared to its industry competitors market cap and valuation doesn't make sense.

- Counter to the above argument, it shows the cracks in the system: Many stocks are simply valued based on votes that traditionally has been in the favor of large institutional investors who are also guilty of market manipulation and closer, faster access to new information that the retail investors do not have.

Overall, I am very worried that we are on the final stretch of the equity bubble that started as a result of the Feds printing money, buying up corporate debt, violating the US constitution. We are witnessing a departure from fundamental valuation and straight into a manic stage.

- I disagree that retail investors have an edge in information rather that existing fundamental analysts employed by large firms never had an edge at all and simply a mouthpiece for whatever price is desired by a select group of institutional hedge funds.

TLDR: I am pleased the little guys are winning but also very worried that we are on the final manic phase of a classic equity bubble we've witnessed two decades ago.

edit: HN is throttling my comments after my CNBC video was removed for being a duplicate so to answer:

"Why is it different now we've been in a bubble for the past 5 years"

Take a look at the M3 supply

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S

do you see that vertical line right at the beginning of 2020?

that's what is different now. We are now in a bubble withi in a bubble.
Of course someone at some point is likely to create a bitcoin fork that stops further halving.

The question is whether this fork will attract enough economic interest to survive. Without getting exchange listings and enough interested buyers, it will quickly perish. Most people realize that the 21M limit is what defines bitcoin, and its immutability is the essential difference from fiat currency.

Any deviation from that doesn't deserve to be called bitcoin and will rightly be ridiculed.

If bitcoin cannot securely endure on fees alone, then the capped supply experiment has failed, and it's time to switch to whatever is the most promising coin with a tail emission.
Broken clock, etc.

(the "broken clock" being the obscenely wealthy as a class, not necessarily Cuban himself)
The article doesn't delve into recovery. I would love to see some analysis on what it will take to lower the poverty rate back down, and for the small businesses that were forced to close to recover. How likely is it that we will see small businesses return?
Interesting. So you don't sit with him 10 hours at a time.

You have him -- more or less -- on call when you get stuck for 30 minutes at a time?

Or do you batch all the roadblocks you have, then ask him to schedule something at, say 10am, the next day. He looks at your git repo and the issues you have?
Their scotch can be good, but look up the specific bottling. Sometimes it'll be something like a "factory second" of MacCallan 18... not the prime barrels, not as good as the stuff actually sold by macallan, but also about 1/3rd the price.
You original point

> the Javascript ecosystem is unmatched when it comes to very quickly creating frontend applications

Didn't hinge on whether you were creating internal tools or not. You simply used internal tools as an example of what you personally do with JS.
The point isn't that it wasn't hard work to grow from $250,000 to billions. The point is that there's a big difference between saying "anyone who works hard can build a company like Amazon" and "anyone who works hard and got $250,000 from their parents can build a company like Amazon."
GameStop Mania Reveals Power Shift on Wall Street
There is a reason high frequency trading is typically referred to as legal front running. Sure, it's not front running by legal definition, but in practice it is absolutely front running. Beating trades to the market and making micro-gains on a mass scale.
In many academic disciplines there are no real incentives for reproducible research. On the contrary, reproducibility helps your colleagues/competitors poke holes in your papers. It is quite perverse that being secretive and sneaky is better for career advancement that being open and honest. This is the underlying root of the problem.
Wall Street is a large scale gambling operation with a public-backed safety net. Apparently they don't like it when people call this out. And they definitely hate it more when outsiders start beating them at their game.
The shows are edited for time. Each negotiation, which airs for about ~10 minutes on the show, takes an average of 2 hours to shoot (with a surprisingly wide variance).
To play an equally broken record: Have julia's ridiculously long precompilation times improved recently?
'requirements' kinda depends on who you are trying to sell to. If it's to the US Federal government, it needs to meet the criteria of what's known as 'Section 508'. There's information about that here:

https://section508.gov/

Other customers, such as schools and universities, might want WCAG 2.1

https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

They may also need to be 508 compliant because of funding rules.

Beyond that, things become complicated.
I think the funniest part of this entire phenomenon is that Robinhood is now taking money from the rich and distributing it to the masses in a more literal sense. At least for now.

On a more serious note, I don't get how a stock can be 140% shorted. Does that mean once you return a portion of the shares you borrowed you have to rebuy part of it and return it again? Also when would these short sellers get margin called?
Builds Apps as a Tree of Plugins
There is the widely accepted concept of an ally. You could be one. You'll be a second-class citizen. You'll have to supplicate for your place. For the 'space you take up' as they like to say. You'll need to keep up with the latest woke thinking on TikTok and Twitter, so you know how you're expected to think, believe, feel, speak, and act, in order to keep your probationary status as an ally. And it'll always be probationary. I'm not going to, but you could.

Ah, if only it was actually about empathizing and showing respect. Wouldn't that be something.
Bankrupt Blockbuster Joins Reddit-Inspired Retail Rally
Nuclear fusion may be closer than you think too. We've been developing better and better superconductors that could yield more compact and more powerful electromagnets, which is a major bottleneck to making it practical.

ITER is huge and fabulously expensive, but it's intended to be more of an experiment/testbed that happens to maybe generate some power. It's not intended to be a practical reactor.
Algolia Acquires MorphL, Launches AI Predictive Experiences and Personalization
The article includes a link to the US program for turning rigs into reefs [1]. You should read that link. To start, the rig must be a good candidate for acceptance into the program (which includes contamination - or lack thereof) and the operator must generally “donate” half of the money they would save to the US state that will be accepting the rig to pay for the costs involved in maintaining the rig as a reef.

[1] https://www.bsee.gov/what-we-do/environmental-focuses/rigs-t...
He didn’t have any answer as to the fate of new bag holders he created with his tweet. That was irresponsible. His plan to make hedge funds disclose their positions daily as some kind of a solution to overleverage makes no sense whatsoever. And he’s delusional about research skills of WSB posters as compared to Wall Street analysts.
Pattern matching in six programming languages
PS: You can see an example of scdoc sources here:

⌘ https://github.com/kseistrup/timestamp/tree/master/src

The scdocs havde the extension .md because Microsoft Github thinks .sc is SuperCollider files, whatever that is. The .1 files are “compiled” from the .1.md sources.
Show HN: Origin – Validate your business idea with an interactive prototype
Maybe Adjacent: Corecursive episode w/ Daniel Lemire was just terrific.

https://corecursive.com/frontiers-of-performance-with-daniel...

Some people are just really good at performance sensitive stuff.
There's also

"The complaint alleges that in 2016, Mackey established an audience on Twitter with approximately 58,000 followers. A February 2016 analysis by the MIT Media Lab ranked Mackey as the 107th most important influencer of the then-upcoming Election, ranking his account above outlets and individuals such as NBC News (#114), Stephen Colbert (#119) and Newt Gingrich (#141)."
If you're genuinely asking, it's because:

- Race is immutable, and can't be faked

- Race is linked to genetics (ingroup preference increases YOUR genetic proliferation)

- For millions of years, we've done it this way (there were no class problems in prehistoric times)
if its still a stock, wsb will love it!
If the argument is everyone’s making bank on these meme stonks and it turns out to only be a tiny fraction of the user base that are ending in the black, the argument isn’t very well founded.
discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919235
Yea money is flowing from hedge funds who are short to retail investors as the stock runs up, but once it inevitably moves back down it will be the retail bag holders inflicted with massive losses.
This painfully reminds me of ages ago, pre-ie6 even, when we would get html-tables, spacergifs and whatnots, blurped out by ancient Dreamweaver, Paint Shop Pro slices and such.

It looked good. But hardly worked.

Apparently the web hasn't really changed in that part: we're still churning out HTML that hardly works, but "looks good".
I disagree with Chamath’s take. Chamath sounds intelligent but it’s misplaced. It’s like analyzing Black Friday stampedes with the rationality of product quality assessment, better customer service, and overall better shopping experience. No. That’s not why these people are rushing in. Black Friday stampedes are a cascading phenomenon of FOMO + price trickery. It’s a giant mob with irrational behavior. Let’s not polish it too much. WSB is a cesspool (even after sterilizing it) of awful logic and herd thinking. The real losers are going to be average Joe’s who jumped into this with their Robinhood accounts and got their savings wiped out.

Chamath, Naval, Elon etc all belong to the narrative of decentralization and crypto with their own vested interests. Just the other day I was listening to Naval’s interview with a New Zealand media house - dude is literally urging people to buy Bitcoin.

Unrelated, but I’m going full bonds/cash after seeing the insanity today’s market is, not just GME but look at TSLA, etc. I can stay irrational longer.
Can you give management a single good reason to waste hours of time migrating away from a working product because you’re disappointed?

If 240 additional bucks a year for a product that continuously moved features from higher to lower tiers for years now is too much for you then maybe you should adjust your expectations towards Enterprise software in general.
As a Developer,

- Google Wave for realtime synchronization

- Hibernate ORM for POJO/Hashmap persistence

- App engine for planetary scale

- Gmail for its AJAX client
It would be nice if they broke that chart down by AS numbers, as I suspect much of that is the mobile carriers. Here is some data [1] looks like about 27k AS numbers comprise all of the ipv6 usage. I stand corrected, looks like mostly mobile and Amazon for the US and then the rest is several other countries that are primarily using ipv6.

[1] - https://www.cidr-report.org/v6/as2.0/#Aggs
IIRC, the drug has to be tested, and it has to be made in a facility that meets QA standards, etc.
I'm not either, but I've written quite a few webpages over the years, and even the occasional use of JS, but only when it's not possible to do without.

I suspect much of the superfluous JS comes from a " if you have only a hammer, everything looks like a nail" mentality.
Here's a pretty good explanation of that how that can happen: https://nope-its-lily.medium.com/gamestop-power-to-the-marke...
SEC is apparently now investigating. If they take the side of hedge funds then there's going to be another occupy wall street movement, this time with millions of pissed off retailers, robin hood, ready to take class action lawsuits.
Cool concept! Who do you think your typical customer for this product is?
Probably an issue that should've gotten addressed ahead of standardization, IMHO: https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-csp/issues/92
Well its not all about insurance companies but also where government drops the ball. Example, doctors will prescribe Eliquis because if you have insurance and not medicare its downright cheap but if you are on medicare your cost is four hundred plus.

Even insulin prices get distorted because you are limited to which types you can buy in you are under medicare.

maybe with their majority the Democrats can finally tell their union buddies to bugger off and pass a single payer or tax high value insurance policies; one major reason ACA was so limited as many of those policies which were going to be taxed were all on the side of public employee union benefits.
We are a new startup and we recently launched virtual primary care ($25 per visit) and this might be useful to us in the future when we have elderly patients who can't get out of bed for bloodwork. We'll keep you in mind when the need arises! (https://virtual.tangerinehealth.co/)
scary to get treated by a doctor who forgot most of the stuff they learnt in med school.
You get way more than LDAP connectivity...
I think the "20th century" solution to letting many users in different locations run regexes would probably have been to write a cgi-bin script in Perl, and have users paste text into a box on an HTML form.

The results page generated by the script could have checkboxes to mark each suggestion as useful/not-useful/incorrect and a submit button, with this feedback saved in MySQL.

(I'm not sure whether this qualifies as "without ... services")
It is possible to have very high inequality and [pick one] comfortable/uncomfortable poor people.

How much someone has relative to their neighbour doesn't control their quality of life.
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You’re comparing the basics of a capitalism based society to a large company actively breaking the law (price fixing) on products that affect people’s lives and health directly.
> He made his money by basically pushing out fellow founders at paypal.

I wasn't aware he was a founder at PayPal. I didn't even know he had worked for them.
Wouldn't the short sellers have to buy all of what they shorted from the retail investors?
What are the problems with pubsub? Do they need to invent something not done before or it's just a skill shortage?
That's entirely possible. I've seen a React tutorial that shows a simple example HTML snippet, and comments on it with "We’ll get to the funny XML-like tags soon."
um, I don't follow wsb, but based purely on what you said, you don't back your comments either. So much for taking the high-horse. Chamath at least has the$$ to show for.
Update your Apple divices with the last security patch
> I would have been happy to buy a Zen 4 laptop but I couldn't find any at the price point I needed.

And you'd need to budget for a time machine, first!

AMD has done a poor job with naming for their new processors and architecture.

The architecture is called 'Zen'. The consumer SKUs have a model name of 'Ryzen'. I'll ignore the server parts for now (model name 'Epyc').

The Zen architecture progressed as follows: Zen-->Zen+-->Zen2-->Zen3

The Ryzen model numbers for desktop progressed as follows: Ryzen 1000-->Ryzen 2000-->Ryzen 3000-->Ryzen 5000.

The Ryzen model numbers for laptop SKUs progressed mostly as follows: Ryzen Mobile 2000-->Ryzen Mobile 3000-->Ryzen Mobile 4000-->Ryzen Mobile 5000.

Some of the newest Ryzen Mobile 5000-series are actually Zen2, aka rebadged Ryzen Mobile 4000-series.

So, Zen4 is still upcoming and not available to anyone except AMD's engineers who are currently developing it.
Why couldn’t game stop equity go to zero? Equity is just the least senior claim on assets, it goes to zero all the time.
I anticipate ours won’t be a popular opinion on here, because the whole “stick it to the man” narrative is tempting, but I have to agree. I listened in on a Clubhouse room today where people were teaching each other how to options trade and I couldn’t help but think, these are the people, not Wall Street, who are going to be left holding the bag.
I can't really speak to all the technologies you mentioned, but some of the other apps I maintain are in python using django. It is also "batteries included", and does give you more tools out of the box for backend work. It's actually really nice to work with and maintain in my opinion.

I would say though, that for very quickly creating new applications that get the job done, js has been the fastest for me. And while django and similar give you more database stuff to work with, honestly that feels like a solved problem, and it's often easier to not have to do any backend work at all, and instead use something like hasura. And next does include backend code too for functions that you need to write for the backend.

Obviously, this isn't ideal for a lot of problems. I think if you can get away with it, you can be really productive. I've made crud apps for work with this stack in very little time.
I wonder how much of a shakeup between this and whatever Amazon Pharmacy is doing may have on pricing...

https://pharmacy.amazon.com/
For better or worse, derivatives-based economies are incredibly resource-efficient. By creating a formal system for actually assigning universally-understood value to promises, we can do a lot more with a lot less.

Sometimes bad things happen, but you can be sure we'd have none of the niceties of modern society without a derivatives-based economy.

Immediate cash just has a ceiling for what it's capable of supporting.
Admittedly most is just personal preference but the line width thing is the cardinal sin. Forcing huge blocks of whitespace on either side of the text for nebulous "readability" reasons is just wasteful. Too many web sites ape this pattern too. Look at John Gruber's website [1] on a nice wide 27" monitor for an extreme example. The content takes up less than 1/5 of the width of the screen.

1: https://daringfireball.net
Tesla tried that too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY), but they only built one swap station and they decommissioned it a couple of years later. They claimed lack of demand and doubled down on supercharging instead.

A company named Better Place got a ton of VC funding to set up a battery swapping service for electric cars, and flamed out spectacularly.

Perhaps NIO can succeed where Tesla and Better Place failed, but I'm doubtful. OTOH, Shanghai is probably a great place to start.
>Pillars of smoke filmed over the areas hit by last summer’s wildfires despite the current long spell of extremely cold weather.

Wouldn't cold weather amplify the effects of large fires? After all, cold air is more dense, thus provides more of the oxygen necessary to burn hotter. It also has less moisture.
Here is the value:

If you were going to produce these images anyway, using some other means, it's probably costing you more than $99 a month.
My understanding is that currently people set up a STUN/TURN server to relay WebRTC, so it's not really used as P2P but there is still some benefit to the protocol itself.

To move to true P2P for WebRTC seems impossible, as even if 80% of web users were on IPv6 without NAT (and even 80% seems a bit hopeless at this point considering we've been transitioning to IPv6 for 20 years now), you'd still need a fallback configuration for the 20% that don't. There doesn't seem to be a feasible gradual transition strategy.

This is not really my area of expertise, so I'd love to be proven wrong.
I might be wrong, but I suspect that if this pandemic had hit before remote working technology had become widespread amongst professionals and white collar elites, there wouldn't have been such an aggressive, broad lock-down strategy.

Instead, the people with power and influence, like us, felt minimal pain compared to the working classes, and marched on with our policies in bliss.

Meanwhile, my family (I grew up in a working class rural family) has suffered tremendously back "home". I'm ok with what's necessary, but deeply resent the politically safe strategy of overreacting by default.

If you live in California, you may be interested to learn that elementary schools are open in states like Colorado, and these states universally have lower rates of infection than CA. You may also be interested to know that a study published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (those quacks!), conducted jointly by Duke/UNC, following 100,000 students and faculty in North Carolina public schools, conclusively determined that schools can be opened safely with basic PPE and adjustments in scheduling.
https://www.aappublications.org/news/2021/01/08/covid-north-...

From the study:
"During the nine-week study period, the 11 districts reported 773 community-acquired infections. Typically, people in North Carolina who are infected have infected slightly more than one other person, meaning there was the potential for 800 to 900 secondary infections within the schools. However, local public health officials found only 32 in-school transmissions, according to the study.

Of those 32 cases, six were in pre-kindergarten, 11 were in elementary schools, six were in middle schools, five were in high schools and four were in schools that included kindergarten through 12th grade. None of the cases involved a child infecting an adult."

My daughter and son are both enrolled and attending in-person school here in Colorado, and it's gone smoothly. I'm curious as to what dynamics exist in California school buildings that would be different than my kid's school buildings, and can't think of any. Which makes me strongly suspect that California and certain other places have schools closed out of an overabundance of caution that doesn't take into account the holistic costs of keeping them closed.
It is pretty damn powerful and quite elegant. What do you find bad about it?
I agree that he ignored a few important questions. There is the very real possibility (and it's more like a certainty) that regular people will join the bandwagon too late and get hurt. When hedge funds get hurt, they still have plenty of money to survive. When I see posts (although who knows if they are real) about putting your life savings on something like this, losing that money has very serious real-world implications.

This all is certainly highlighting that these systems have been fundamentally unfair for a long time, but that doesn't mean that real people won't be hit hard financially as a result.

I don't know, maybe I'm just far too conservative with my money to do something like this.
The only way paying down debts can affect income is by reducing interest expense, which would make income go up. If a debt was written off by a lender and would no longer be collected, that would affect income (although that's not "paying down") and would also increase income.
It’s easy pickings but putting your name on a generic drug company seems like an oxymoron. This and the thing in the news recently with Delonte West’s rehab that Mark Cuban sponsored - not even an attempt to get the stink of PR off of it which rubs me the wrong way
Short sellers cover their borrowed shares. They are not left with any stock after they close their trade.